X-Message-Number: 18995 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:08:56 -0400 From: Subject: Future disease We will continuously discover new diseases as we increase our technical knowledge. An example is prion disease. We didn't have the ability to even identify it until ~20 years ago. Imagine a world that must infectious and structural diseases can be routinely cured. Nanotechnology gains widespread use in medicine (not too far off IMHO). Either a deviant individual, organization, or even spontaneous code generation creates a worm that infects the nano repair army. Imagine the chaos this could impart. A future disease. By the way, Chaos theory seems to understated in many previous posts James R Hughes, MD PhD Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18995